Improved curtain-fixture



w i .uiteti tant WILLIAM II. YOUNG'r AND L. YOUNG, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Leners Patent No. 83,680, dazed November 3,4 186s.

IMPRQVED CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters P'tent `and making part of the same.

To all whom. ritmo/y concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. YOUNG and L. YOUNG, both of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Self-Fastening Slide and Tassel for Curtains; and we hereby declare-that thefollowings afullandexaot description thereof, reference being had to the aocompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of the invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the invention Figure is a section of the slide.V l

-The letter a. represents the curtain; l1, the stick; c, the slide; d, the cord; and c, the tassel.

The invention is a self-fastening slide, and tassel connected therewith, the slide being made -to attach or slipon to the lower part or stick of the curtain, for

`the purpose of raising or lowering` the same.

The usual mode of attaching the tassel to the curtain, for this purpase, is by making a hole through the stick, half way from its two ends, and passing a cord through the hole, and fastening the same.

- In this way, of course, the curtain is damaged and the stick is weakened, and, by much use, likely to break. There is, also, another way of attaching the tassel, namely, by means of a metallic clamp, which is made to clasp the curtainfstick, and, by a spring, nut, and screw, is fastened to the same; and the tassel depends by a cord attached'to a ring in the clamp. This way is somewhatexpeusive, and the metal tarnishes the curtain.

Our invention is an improvement upon the clamp, and the Old way of attaching the tassel. By reference ,to the accompanying drawings, iig. 1, the slide e is seen attached to the curtain. It ismade of wood, but may be made of any suitable material. Figs. 2 and 3 exhibit sections of the Slide with and without the cord depending from the Same. Fig 3 exhibits the shape 0f the hole, which conforms to the usual form of the stick. The slide may be made of one piece, with the hole mortised through it, or of two pieces glued or fastened together. The slide may be put on to either end of the stick, and can be adj usted to any part of the same; and there is spring enough, the edges at the slit com ing together, to-hold itiirmly. v

Made of wood, its cost is` triing.' It may be gilded or otherwise ornamented; but its chief advantage lies in the ease with which it can be taken 01T, whenthe curtain is to be washed, and again adjusted-and for its effectiveness for the-thing intended.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article of manufacture, is

The slide O, constructed as described. and for the purpose specified.

W. H. YOUNG. Witnesses: L. YOUNG.

J. L. NEWTON,

J. W. HAMMOND. 

